Category Archives: Commentary

2 Chronicles 18 – 19

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Jehoshaphat’s Unequal Yoke with Ahab and Its Consequences 2 Chronicles 18 – 19     CHAPTER 18 1 And Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance; and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage. 2 And after certain years he went down to Ahab, to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for […]

2 Chronicles 20

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Jehoshaphat’s Victory over Ammon, Moab, and Edom 2 Chronicles 20     CHAPTER 20 1 And it came to pass after this that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them certain of the Maonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. 2 And they came and told Jehoshaphat saying, A […]

2 Chronicles 13

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Reign of Abijah 2 Chronicles 13     CHAPTER 13 1 In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah. 2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. 3 […]

2 Chronicles 14

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Asa’s Ten Years of Quiet, Victory over the Ethiopians 2 Chronicles 14     CHAPTER 14 1 And Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years. 2 And Asa did […]

2 Chronicles 15

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Asa Cleanses the Kingdom of Judah 2 Chronicles 15     CHAPTER 15 1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded. 2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you while ye […]

2 Chronicles 16

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Asa’s Decline 2 Chronicles 16     CHAPTER 16 1 In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, in order to let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. 2 And Asa brought out silver and gold […]

2 Chronicles 17

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Jehoshaphat’s Faithfulness to the Lord and Its Consequences 2 Chronicles 17     CHAPTER 17 1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel. 2 And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities […]

2 Chronicles 8 – 9

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Riches and Honor of Solomon Among the Nations 2 Chronicles 8 – 9     CHAPTER 8 1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of Jehovah and his own house, 2 that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon […]

2 Chronicles 10

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Kings of Judah 2 Chronicles 10 – 28   O U T L I N E – The Kings of Judah 2 Chronicles 10 – 28 – Rehoboam and the Division of Israel 2 Chronicles 10 – The Reign of Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 11 – The Downfall of Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 12 […]

2 Chronicles 11

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Reign of Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 11     CHAPTER 11 1 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem; and he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men apt for war, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. 2 But the word […]

2 Chronicles 12

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Downfall of Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 12     CHAPTER 12 1 And it came to pass when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and when he had become strong, that he forsook the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him. 2 And it came to pass in the fifth year of […]

2 Chronicles 3

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Structure of the Temple 2 Chronicles 3     CHAPTER 3 1 And Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where he appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 And he began to […]

2 Chronicles 4

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Furniture of the Temple 2 Chronicles 4     CHAPTER 4 1 And he made a brazen altar: its length was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits, and its height ten cubits. 2 And he made the sea, molten, ten cubits from brim to brim, round all about; and its height […]

2 Chronicles 5

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Israel Gathered to the Dedication: The Presence of the Lord 2 Chronicles 5     CHAPTER 5 1 And all the work was finished that Solomon made for the house of Jehovah. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the […]

2 Chronicles 6

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication 2 Chronicles 6     CHAPTER 6 1 Then said Solomon: Jehovah said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 2 But I have built a house of habitation for thee, even a settled place for thee to abide in for ever. 3 And the king turned his […]

2 Chronicles 7

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Solomon Answered by Fire and by Jehovah’s Voice 2 Chronicles 7     CHAPTER 7 1 And when Solomon had ended praying, the fire came down from the heavens and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Jehovah filled the house. 2 And the priests could not enter into the […]

2 Chronicles 2

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Solomon and Hiram: Preparation for the Temple 2 Chronicles 2     CHAPTER 2 1 And Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom. 2 And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountain, and three thousand […]

2 Thessalonians 1

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Perseverance through Persecution 2 Thessalonians 1   2 Thessalonians 1. Before Paul gets into the doctrinal issue of the epistle, he seeks to strengthen the hearts of the saints. Although the technical problem was false eschatological teaching, there was a deeper result of this false teaching the needed to be addressed first. The […]

2 Thessalonians 3

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Practical Exhortations 2 Thessalonians 3   2 Thessalonians 3. In this final chapter, Paul addresses some of the practical needs of the Thessalonians. But first of all, he mentions his own need for their prayers. He addresses the issue of those who were not working, but were instead gossiping and imposing on the […]